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A Carroll County toddler drowned Sunday in a family swimming pool, according to Kentucky State Police.

Preliminary investigation shows that the child, Avaleen Price, had been laid down for a nap by her mother. While the mother was on the front porch, the child was able to make her way outside the home and was found unresponsive in the swimming pool, according to KSP.

She was transported to Carroll County Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead. No foul play is suspected.

A special examination by state Auditor Adam Edelen’s office found no wrong doing for Carroll County Board of Education’s payment for Superintendent Lisa James’ doctoral program. An anonymous phone call prompted the investigation.

The board of education paid $35,461 for James to participate in the first class of a new Executive Doctoral Program, created by Northern Kentucky University, which included a trip to Finland.

Heavy precipitation in Carroll County was the culprit, not only for canceling a number of outdoor activities, but also for harming some of the area’s tobacco crop.

Wilting plants is typically associated with not having enough water. However with tobacco, wilt is caused by the lack of water taken up by the roots because of oversaturation, Carroll County Extension Agent Christin Herbst said. This process is called “drowning tobacco” or “wet feet.”

Fiscal Court approved two executive orders extending agreements with emergency-service providers and approved a proposed rate schedule adjustment for Carroll County Emergency Medical Services for 2013 at its July 5 meeting.

Rates for all ambulance calls were raised by 5 percent, as recommended by SDI, which processes claims for the county EMS department. The company advises annual rate increases to stay in line with approved rates used by Medicare and commercial insurance companies for reimbursement rates paid on behalf of the patient.

Code Enforcement Officer John Welch reported to council that he is continuing to look into the berm that caused the stop work order at the Bishop’s Trace subdivision on Schuermann Street. The berm, which is two feet higher than it was originally engineered to be, is causing a drainage issue on Herb Kinman’s adjacent properties.

If you have driven down Hwy. 227 past the Carroll County High School in the past week, you may have noticed something is missing.

Construction began last week on the installation of the new tennis courts at the high school, meaning the old ones had to be removed. Tennis Technology Inc. of Louisville won the bid for the project at a cost of $103,222. The bid included three new courts, net posts and a vinyl coated fence with two gates. The company also will fix the drainage issues by installing a perimeter drainage system.

Time 2 Invent Club held its first meeting Monday, July 7, at Cartmell. Meetings will be held Mondays and Wednesdays until July 24. Students in fourth through eighth grade will come from 1-2 p.m., while students in kindergarten to third grade will come from 2-3 p.m.

Rain reports for Carroll County and the surrounding areas have varied over the past few days, but one thing is for certain: It was enough to flood part of Hwy. 36 East and to cancel the Fourth of July festivities twice.

According to the National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service, areas of Carroll County registered 2-4 inches of precipitation from July 1-8, while parts of Gallatin, Grant and Owen counties had up to eight inches. However, the Kentucky Mesonet only measured 2.11 inches over the same time period.